Elga Grinvalde | Dedication to Handel | 2020 | oil on canvas | 100 x 125 cm

22.12.2021. – 5.02.2022.

The sacred days of the year are approaching, when we want to maintain inner peace and light for the whole next year. Now more than ever we need this connection with one another and faith. Our search for happiness is very individual - for some it is a quiet moment in church, but for others it is a meditative state through immersion in colors, forms and light.

In the works of Elga Grinvalde, presented at the personal exhibition "Verticals" at the gallery MuseumLV, there are direct references to the Roman basilica, in which beauty of the Divine leads to a quiet, unchanging harmony. The artist’s painting is characterized by interaction of light and color, which creates special vibrations and draws the viewer into a meditative state. With its wide dimensions, simplified shapes and masterful nuances, the potential of color is unleashed, while the shimmering layers of paint bring a sense of depth. A similar meditative aura manifests itself in the cold beauty of winter.

Artist Elga Grinvalde explains the idea of the exhibition: ’Look from point to point, higher and higher until the boundary disappears. Verticals, cathedrals, mountains and sky, giant forests, trees, church, skyscrapers, stars and distance unknown. Barcode, blanket patterns, national skirts, lines and patterns, coatings with endless thoughts. Verticals - climbing a mountain, persistent work, falling and resurrection, delving into the essence of things, new revelations, walking into the depths of infinite vertical. We look for our own vertical. The exhibition is based on a game of color and light interaction independently from an artist. On a basis of gold. Gold as a background since the Byzantine Middle Ages. The play of divine beauty in the basilica with sun and candle lights and the sounds of vibrating coral transfers people's subconscious to the vertical lines. Looking at the paintings in the exhibition, each visitor will see their vision. Person is what he sees, hears, feels. Paintings with an approximate mood can bring each person individually into the harmony of silence that is their own vertical.’

Elga Grinvalde (1966), born in Valka. Since 1996, she has regularly organized solo exhibitions both in Latvia and abroad. She had participated in exhibitions at the Mark Rothko Art Center, the Arsenals Exhibition Hall ‘Arsenals’, the Gallery MuseumLV, the Baltic Biennale in St. Petersburg, L'Eternita nell Arte in Rome, and elsewhere.

The team of Gallery MuseumLV wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe, happy New Year 2022.

Music of the exhibition: Toms Auniņš.

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